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Race, culture and gender : black female experiences of violence and abuse
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Details
- Creator
- Ava Kanyeredzi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 1137583894, 9781137583888, 9781137583895
- OCLC
- on1030303159
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction; Prevalence of Violence Against Women and Children; About This Book; Background to the Project; Language and Black Women in the UK; Legal and Policy Framework; Key Concepts; Race, Racism, Culture, and Ethnicity; Racialised/Racialisation; Minoritised/Minoritisation; Violence and Abuse; Continuum of Violence; Victim-Survivors; Intersectionality; Help-Seeking; Controlling Images, Violence, and Abuse; Silence and the Strong Black Woman; Community, Service, and Family Responses to Violence and Abuse
- Ethnicity, Culture, Violence, and AbuseExploiting Poverty and Drowning Voices; Racial Loyalty, Body Devaluation and Decisions to Stay Silent; Finding a Voice and Seeking Support; References; 2: Silenced Through Fear, Threats, and Betrayal: A Continuum of Oppression; Racism in Lived Experiences; Migration, Intergenerational Trauma and Oppression; Feeling Displaced by Migration; Displacement Through Space; Feeling Unsafe and Silenced by Male Abusers; Strategically Observing Abusers' Patterns; Staying Silent for Safety; Physical and Emotional Abuse from Mothers; Telling in My Own Way; References
- 3: Silenced, Shamed, Speaking Out and the Strong Black WomanToughening of Self; Racialised Gendered Shame and the Strong Black Woman; Cacophonous Responses and Being Silenced; Liar-Liar: Sweep and Race It Under the Carpet; Wearing the Mask; References; 4: Silenced and Out of Place: Feeling Like a Nugatory Self; Feeling Intruded by Racialisation; Hair as a Bodily Site for Control; Hair Reveals and Conceals Race, Violence, and Abuse; Not Black Enough; References; 5: Feeling Through the Silences, Seeking Support, and Being 'Saved'; Serendipitous Routes
- Calling the Police and Involving Social ServicesBecoming a Self Through Counselling; Having a Faith; Visible Abuse Through Spiritual Readings; Looking Out for the Next Generation; Self in Everyday Spaces; References; 6: Learning to Hear the Silences; The Politics of Feeling in the Creation of Knowledge; Conclusions; Implications for Communities, Policy, and Practice; References; References; Index